Thursday, September 16, 2010

Woman in Gold


Drawn yesterday, from life.

Pastel on 12"x16" black pastel paper.
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12 comments:

  1. William MichaelianSeptember 16, 2010 at 11:47 AM

    Really nice. The gold sings — but softly, like a lament arriving from across a lake.

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  2. -K-September 16, 2010 at 12:33 PM

    I was going to say how I like both the colors and the woman's expression but William's comment makes me seem like a piker (and that's an expression I don't think anybody's used since 1944).

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  3. Cafe PasadenaSeptember 16, 2010 at 12:56 PM

    Finally something to take my mind off the Women in Red!

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  4. nouvelles couleurs - vienna atelierSeptember 16, 2010 at 1:41 PM

    delicate, softly, sensual, the essenz of a woman...

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  5. Pasadena AdjacentSeptember 16, 2010 at 1:54 PM

    what's a piker? besides a fish (I think)

    and returning to the subject of color in the last post, the salmon isn't a comfortable color but I don't think colors always should be. I'm all for acid yellow when it works....and it often does for an ex instructor of mine that I would come to discover is color blind

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  6. PJSeptember 16, 2010 at 4:49 PM

    The angularity of his neck, he looks like an adolescent that's still under construction.

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  7. AnonymousSeptember 16, 2010 at 5:04 PM

    There's strength in this.

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  8. AnonymousSeptember 16, 2010 at 5:04 PM

    There's strength in this.

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  9. Banjo52September 17, 2010 at 2:09 PM

    Yes, AH, strength and more drama, leaning in, closer, something like determination in the face.

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  10. AnonymousSeptember 17, 2010 at 10:55 PM

    That's why, apparently, I said it twice.

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  11. Jean SpitzerSeptember 18, 2010 at 6:41 AM

    Thanks, WM. Beautiful.

    K, thanks. And "piker" is so old, it's cool, to use another vintage word.

    CP, glad to be of assistance.

    NC, thanks.

    PA, miser or slacker,take your pick. Especially with these pastels, I often pick colors cause they're there and unused and more or less the value I want. It would be interesting to do it without seeing the color.

    Paula, it does look like an adolescent under construction.

    AH, can't have too much strength.

    Banjo, hold this position for almost an hour--which is what I think this model did--and you better be strong and determined.

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  12. Banjo52September 21, 2010 at 8:24 AM

    See, it's like filtering your garden water. All the stuff I never thought about.

    I'm behind here, sorry. But now I'm alert to the fact.

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